#but having listened to the end credits music on spotify a bunch i'm pretty sure it's based on romance choice?

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ugh fine i GUESS i'm not immune to pan

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So, I wrote recently about the amazing Daniel Kitson radio archive that a very helpful and industrious person has put together just because it seemed like a really, really good thing to do. It was done with a little help from a number of other people, some of it from me, but the majority of the credit goes to a person who put a whole website together to host this stuff. (The credit… and, in which I believe is the extremely unlikely event that Mr. Kitson himself actually comes across it, the blame. Mr. Kitson, if you are reading this, I had nothing whatsoever to do with it, in fact I have never heard of you and I definitely have no opinions on your music taste.)

I’d known for a while that this was in the works, and I’d done some editing and record keeping to help with it, and was looking forward to it actually getting launched. Partly because I wanted to see it, partly because I hoped that putting it out there might lead to other people getting in touch if they had radio episodes to add to the collection. I tried not to get my hopes up too much for that, as recordings are sparse, but still, I thought it would be cool.

Well, since then this has yielded greater success than I’d expected, and I’m so pleased about it. Which brings me to the point of this post, which is to say I just got access to some more radio episodes, I will be listening to them and probably posting whatever comes to mind while I do so.

First of all, an update since the post I made when I first shared this archive: a bunch of stuff has been added. There are now all six episodes from the Triple R Graveyard run, and I’ve confirmed that the five episodes that are there from the 2008 Triple R Graveyard run are all of them. There are also all three episodes from the 2009 run, a different thing called Comedy Special. So all of that’s complete. A couple of episodes were also added to the Listening Club tab, and I’m pretty sure that section is now complete as well. Which I think means the archive might now have all of the shows Kitson ever hosted on Resonance FM, as I’m fairly sure the collection of those from post-2010 is comprehensive.

Also, a few more miscellaneous things have been added, some of which are very cool. The coolest, in my opinion, is the appearance on the BBC Radio 4 program Loose Ends from November 2003, which he described in some detail in what might be his easiest-to-find, and therefore most-listened-to, illicit live show recording that I definitely have not personally heard, given that I’ve never heard of him and have no opinion on his music taste. But if anyone has heard it, the one from Hull on November 30, 2003, it’s pretty cool to hear him describe the interview there, and then go on the radio archive where you can hear the actual interview. That was one was acquired through a level of effort that I highly, highly commend (not effort by me, effort by the person who deserves the credit/blame).

Anyway, all that is up on the site now, along with edited versions where applicable (edit means the songs and ads are cut out, for people who just want the comedy), tracklists and Spotify playlists (for people who just want the music), and complete versions (for people who want to pretend it’s some year besides 2023 and hear it the way it aired). And now we have a few new episodes, that I will be going through and probably putting thoughts on the internet as I do so.

So to get started, here’s my first thought. I have wondered for some time when exactly Daniel Kitson's music tastes moved from fey indie, toward LCD Soundsystem. It was the first thing when we left off in 2008, and then he came back in 2013 with some significantly different music. Music that is... well, I'm sure some people like it. Obviously some people like it. Personally, I have no opinion on it and have never heard of Daniel Kitson.

So far, I've only listened to one of the new files, and it's a short segment of Kitson appearing on the Triple R breakfast show during the 2012 Melbourne Comedy Festival. I guess this answers the question of when the music shifted, and possibly a bit about why.

God damn it, Kitson. Look, if we all promise to never assume that we know anything about you, could you please lower this annoyingly discordant weapon against predictability, and not make me hear any more of that band in your next radio run? (Sorry, I mean I have no opinion.)